Clinical, electrophysiological and genetic studies of two families with mutations in the GDAP1 gene.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Leukoencephalopathy associated with dysmorphic features may be attributed to chromosomal abnormalities such as 17p13.3 microdeletion syndrome. CASE:A 19-year-old female patient was referred to our hospital for diagnostic evaluation of her leukoencephalopathy. She demonstrated moderate intellectual disabilit...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Hirasawa-Inoue A,Takeshita E,Shimizu-Motohashi Y,Ishiyama A,Saito T,Komaki H,Nakagawa E,Sugai K,Inoue K,Goto YI,Sasaki M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two children with biotinidase deficiency presented with seizures at 2 months of age. The first child had a fluctuating course with continual developmental progress and cessation of seizures despite symptoms of chronic neurologic dysfunction until he was diagnosed at 17 months. The second child had a progressive course...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Bousounis DP,Camfield PR,Wolf B

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscular dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of inherited diseases. The natural history of these disorders along with their management have changed mainly due to a better understanding of their pathophysiology, the evolution of standards of care, and new treatment options. Dystrophinopathies include both Duchenne's ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Domingos J,Sarkozy A,Scoto M,Muntoni F

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galloway-Mowat syndrome (GMS) is a rare autosomal-recessive disorder characterised by nephrotic syndrome, microcephaly, and variable brain anomalies. The prognosis is poor with death almost inevitably supervening before the age of 6 years, but atypical cases with later onset of proteinuria and a more protracted course...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Steiss JO,Gross S,Neubauer BA,Hahn A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary degeneration of the granular layer of the cerebellum is an autosomal recessive disorder exhibiting characteristic clinical features: hypotonia, strabismus, delayed motor development, nonprogressive ataxia, delayed language development with dysarthria and mental retardation. We studied fourteen children, seven ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Pascual-Castroviejo I,Gutierrez M,Morales C,Gonzalez-Mediero I,Martínez-Bermejo A,Pascual-Pascual SI

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chorea Huntington (CH) is a dominantly inherited, neurodegenerative disease usually with adult onset. The course of CH is characterized by movement disturbances, psychiatric symptoms and it may lead to dementia. Typically death occurs after 10 to 20 years of CH duration. Invariably, the underlying mutation concerns an...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Gencik M,Hammans C,Strehl H,Wagner N,Epplen JT

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously healthy one-year-old boy, the youngest child of unrelated parents, presented with a four-week history of episodes of myoclonus triggered only by tactile stimulation to his head. There had been no loss of developmental skills. The electroencephalogram (EEG) revealed generalised polyspike wave activity both...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kurian MA,King MD

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE) is an acute or subacute relapsing disorder usually affecting euthyroid patients with evidence of autoimmune thyroiditis. The neurological manifestations are non-specific, with subacute cognitive impairment, movement disorders, generalized seizures, focal neurological symptoms such as st...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Mancardi MM,Fazzini F,Rossi A,Gaggero R

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiamine metabolism dysfunction syndrome type 2 is also known by other terms including: "SCL19A3 gene defect," "biotin-responsive basal ganglia disease" (BBGD), and "biotin-thiamine-responsive basal ganglia disease" (BTBGD). The worldwide incidence and prevalence of this disorder are unknown, but the syndrome has prim...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Alfadhel M,Tabarki B

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemimegalencephaly, which previously has been associated with a poor clinical course characterized by intractable seizures and severe encephalopathy, was found without these conditions in two children with neurofibromatosis. These children showed relatively similar and favourable prognostic features: no presence of se...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Cusmai R,Curatolo P,Mangano S,Cheminal R,Echenne B

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infant botulism is caused by intestinal colonization by Clostridium botulinum, C. barati or C. butyricum. Infant botulism has only rarely been reported outside the USA. A 3-month-old boy developed constipation, lethargy, feeding difficulties and descending, severe, symmetric weakness. He was breastfed but had also bee...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Balslev T,Ostergaard E,Madsen IK,Wandall DA

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-five patients with microcephaly (head circumference < -2SD) were identified. The 55 patients were divided into two groups, consisting of group 1 (34 cases) in which genetic causes were considered primary, and group 2 (21 cases) in which intrauterine and/or postnatal acquired factors were thought to be responsibl...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Sugimoto T,Yasuhara A,Nishida N,Murakami K,Woo M,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromuscular dysplasia is a segmental, nonatheromatous angiopathy. A 13-year-old patient is reported with stroke. Left-sided carotid angiogram revealed typical findings of fibromuscular dysplasia in the left carotid artery. ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Emparanza JI,Aldamiz-Echevarria L,Perez-Yarza E,Hernandez J,Peña B,Gaztañaga R

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Dhawan SR,Goswami JN,Suthar R,Dayal D,Vyas S,Singhi PD

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on a 16-year-old girl with a unique neuromuscular disorder characterised by progressive proximal muscle weakness and numerous tubular aggregates, intracytoplasmic, as well as intranuclear inclusions of the IBM type in her muscle biopsy. The clinical features of the presented case, as manifested by the early ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Fidziańska A,Kamińska A,Ryniewicz B

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional MRI techniques were used to map the position of visual cortex in an awake and a sedated child with congenital anomalies of the posterior hemispheres. In one subject with cortical heterotopia, an activated cortex was found distinct from the structurally abnormal area detected on conventional MRI. In a sedate...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Liu GT,Hunter J,Miki A,Fletcher DW,Brown L,Haselgrove JC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune peripheral neuropathy characterized by demyelination and axonal damage. Biallelic functional polymorphisms in the immunoglobulin G Fc receptors (FcγR)-FcγRIIA: H131/R131, FcγRIIIA: V158/F158, and FcγRIIIB: NA1/NA2 affect the affinity of the IgG-FcγR interacti...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Mansour LA,Girgis MY,Abdulhay M,ElEinein EI,ElHawary R,Hanna MO

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of functional and neuroradiological abnormalities of the corpus callosum in a group of 21 prematurely born children (GA < 34 weeks) who were found to be "clumsy" on the Movement Assessment Battery for Children at 6 years of age. All children underwent functional and ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Mercuri E,Jongmans M,Henderson S,Pennock J,Chung YL,de Vries L,Dubowitz L

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are reporting the unique coexistence of two distinct neuromuscular diseases, myotonic dystrophy and the juvenile form of myasthenia gravis, occurring in one family. A 16-month-old previously healthy female presented with a two month history of bilateral varying drooping of both eyelids and bilateral external ophtha...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Maytal J,Spiro AJ,Sinnar S,Moshe SL

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a nine-year-old boy with the features of Leigh syndrome (LS) and a severe cytochrome-c oxidase (COX) deficiency with a single thymidine insertion at nucleotide position 5537 (T 5537i) in the tRNA Trp gene of mitochondrial DNA. During infancy the boy was irritable and hypotonus was noticed. Early motor develo...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Tulinius M,Moslemi AR,Darin N,Westerberg B,Wiklund LM,Holme E,Oldfors A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of mitochondrial mutations with primary pathogenic significance for Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy in patients with a multiple sclerosis-like phenotype and the preferential maternal transmission points to an involvement of the mitochondrial genome in conferring increased susceptibility to MS. To ev...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Wilichowski E,Ohlenbusch A,Hanefeld F

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activin A is a multifunctional growth and differentiation factor belonging to the transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) family. Growing evidence indicates its role as a neurotrophic factor and regulator of synaptic transmission as well as its functional importance in several types of cerebral injury. We recently descri...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Brackmann FA,Alzheimer C,Trollmann R

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hereditary spastic paraplegia is a neurodegenerative phenotype characterized by a progressive loss of corticospinal motor tract function. In a majority of affected individuals the pathogenesis remains undetermined. METHODS:We identified a series of patients with a phenotype of nonsyndromic spastic paraplegi...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Crow YJ,Zaki MS,Abdel-Hamid MS,Abdel-Salam G,Boespflug-Tanguy O,Cordeiro NJ,Gleeson JG,Gowrinathan NR,Laugel V,Renaldo F,Rodriguez D,Livingston JH,Rice GI

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sleep is known to improve the yield of EEG recording in children but is often difficult to obtain. In order to evaluate the efficacy and to test the practicability of oral melatonin in obtaining sleep for EEG recording, we studied its use in 70 children. RESULTS:Sleep was obtained in 56 children (80%) with ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Eisermann M,Kaminska A,Berdougo B,Brunet ML

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1970 and 1986, 120 children with central nervous system malignancy were treated with radiation therapy. These included 44 low-grade astrocytomas, 11 high grade astrocytomas, 32 medulloblastomas, 15 ependymomas/ependymoblastomas, 3 primitive neuroectodermal tumors and 8 pineal tumors. Seven children were treate...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Avizonis VN,Fuller DB,Thomson JW,Walker MJ,Nilsson DE,Menlove RL

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fucosidosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease, evident in early childhood, is associated with progressive loss of mental and motor function and increasing spasticity and hyperreflexia. We report a Canadian male, with clinical features similar to previously reported fucosidosis patients, however, since age 5 he ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Gordon BA,Gordon KE,Seo HC,Yang M,DiCioccio RA,O'Brien JS

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional MRI mapping of language areas in children frequently employs a covert verb generation task. Because responses are not monitored, the relationship between fMRI activation and task performance is unknown. We compared fMRI activation during covert and overt verb generation to performance during the overt task....

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Vannest J,Rasmussen J,Eaton KP,Patel K,Schmithorst V,Karunanayaka P,Plante E,Byars A,Holland S

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukodystrophies were defined in the 1980s as progressive genetic disorders primarily affecting myelin of the central nervous system. At that time, a limited number of such disorders and no associated gene defects were known. The majority of the leukodystrophy patients remained without a specific diagnosis. In the fol...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Kevelam SH,Steenweg ME,Srivastava S,Helman G,Naidu S,Schiffmann R,Blaser S,Vanderver A,Wolf NI,van der Knaap MS

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS) are rare genetically and clinically heterogeneous disorders characterized by an impaired neuromuscular transmission. Exact prevalence data are not available, approximately 2000 to 3000 patients worldwide have been diagnosed on a molecular level; mutations in 14 different genes are...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Schara U,Della Marina A,Abicht A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (GDD) is a recessively inherited neurometabolic disorder associated with encephalopathic crises and severe extrapyramidal symptoms. Treatment regimens including glucose and electrolyte infusions during acute illnesses, oral carnitine supplementation and/or a low-protein ...

journal_title：Neuropediatrics

authors： Hoffmann GF,Athanassopoulos S,Burlina AB,Duran M,de Klerk JB,Lehnert W,Leonard JV,Monavari AA,Müller E,Muntau AC,Naughten ER,Plecko-Starting B,Superti-Furga A,Zschocke J,Christensen E

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00